Yeah right, next you will be measuring things using the metric system too. Ain't gonna happen.

Yawn... how many of these will it take people to realise that drawing a CGI boat that looks shiny and expensive is just about the easiest thing ever? The McLaren trimaran company still have yet to demonstrate any intentions of building anything in spite of the deluge of orders that they obviously took when they…

... if you mean there is a consensus that "akin" doesn't describe absolute quantities, or that by your own yardstick, circumcision is akin to full penile amputation too...

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Would it have killed someone to loop the gif in reverse so it didn't have the awkward jump?

According to the study in question, the OP's IQ did take a hit but if/when they stop, it will recover to what it was, within the margins of statistical significance.

Woah, sorry, that was a howler I really should have picked up on - I forgot to divide my estimated career span by two, so was looking at data for 1968, not 1990. Although sadly if I'd been looking at data for my own country (the UK) I wouldn't have been far off - women only overtook men in the 90s over here.

Seems to be missing all three of the things that might have made this an interesting story...

Broadly speaking, "hacker" just means something similar to "hobbyist" or "enthusiast" but sounds adventurous.

It looks like the kind of thing that COULD be good value for money, but the Port Authority are paying 70% of the cost price of the things for just six months of use.

Google Goggles, which I assumed to be the de facto QR code scanning app, also does it... although I just tested it and it's not as robust with text as I assumed it was. Still, at least with a shortened url you know it's probably not just a link to page.com...

There isn't a single QR code that can't be replaced by a [bit.ly] URL, and not a single smartphone on sale today that can't scan that with the camera just as easily. The difference is that a URL takes up less space, doesn't have to look so ugly and doesn't require a camera + app combination to resolve it. QR codes had…

Hmm, so...

Didn't Bieber give away (or maybe sell for charity) a bunch of locks of his hair when he departed from the trademark mop style? And babies drool everywhere right? I'd say someone with enough motivation could scoop him to his own paternity test...